Golden Shouldered Parrot

Appearance

Length: 240-260mm
Weight: 54-56g
Colour (male):
Turquoise plumage on salmon-pink lower abdomen.
Black Cap
Yellow forehead
Bronze wings
Bright yellow shoulder strip
Colour (female and immature birds):
Shades of dullish greens and yellows
Turquoise rump
Broad cream strip found on the under wing
Grey-green cheeks
Colour (immature males):
Turquoise cheek
Covering: Feathers
Special Features:
Weight:
Distinct feature:

Habitat

Type: Tropical savannah Woodland

Reason: Availability of grass seeds.
Different habitats at different seasons:
1. Gravel slopes (low open-tree woodland) : Wet season feeding and breeding
2. Glimmer grass flats (low open-tree woodland) : wet season feeding
3. Broad flats (low open-tree woodlands and grass flats): breeding season
feeding and roasting.
4. Narrow flats (low-tree woodland) : breeding
5. Flat edges (Cape York red gum woodland) :Breeding
6. Bare areas (stream beds, roads, scalds) : Wet and dry season feeding
7. Box flats (shiny-leaved box open woodland): nesting, dry season feeding,
breeding, season feeding.
8. Riparian forest (paperback open forest) : Roosting
9. Swamp edges (paperback-tree swamp woodland) : late wet season feeding
and roosting
10. Rocky hills (ironbark, bum and bloodwood woodlands) :wet season feeding
11. Sand ridges and low hills (messmate and bloodwood woodlands): feeding,
breeding season, roosting and nesting.

Predators

Power:

Behaviour
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Threats:
Dominant or shy: Dominant
Protection:
Solitary or pack: Pack
Care for young:

Diet

Cause for
Loss of
numbers

Action

Average Litter:
Type:
Foods: small grass seeds.
Water: They prefer to drink from small and shallow holes they can walk to.
Favourite Food:
Food Intake per day:

Endangered:
Loss of habitat:
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Lack of food
Lack of burning
Intense cattle grazing
Trapping
Habitat clearing
Predators
The Pied Butcher Bird and small goannas take the eggs of the parrot.
Feral Pigs: rooting food, wallowing, trampling, rubbing trees and eating
anything in its path.
9. Disease

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Extras

Sources

Controlling wild pig numbers in critical parrot habitat by using bait and
fencing.
Protect critical habitat from un-intentional fires in dry season.
Saving habitat by using low stocking rate
Restoring deserted parrot habitat.
Protecting existing habitat such as open grasslands and termite mounds
for nesting.
Surveying wet season in southern population.
Surveying breeding distribution in southern population
Habitat monitoring of northern population
Protecting nesting mounds in selected parts of northern population

Life Span
Population:
Conservation:
Kingdom: Animalia
Type:
Family: Psittacidae
Scientific name: Psephotus Chrysoperygius
Water intake per day:
https://www.ehp.qld.gov.au/wildlife/threatenedspecies/endangered/endangeredanimals/goldenshouldered_parrot.html

http://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-animals/birds/nativeparrots/golden-shouldered-parrot
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgibin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=720
http://www.arkive.org/golden-shouldered-parrot/psephotuschrysopterygius/